The mascon was first identified by Doppler tracking of the Lunar Prospector spacecraft.

[4] Other craters within the basin include Guthnick, De Roy, Arrhenius, Yakovkin, Graff, Andersson, Chadwick, Fényi, Blanchard, and Baade.

Vallis Baade cuts tangentially across the northeast rim of the basin.

Nearby craters just outside the outer rim include Drude, Chant, Steklov, Lippmann, Petzval, Chappe, Pilâtre, Hausen, Pingré, and Inghirami.

The large crater Bailly is to the southeast, and to the west beyond Lippmann is the South Pole-Aitken Basin.